PRESS RELEASE: ANNOUNCING: Jordan Munson's "Until My Last"
ANNOUNCING:
Until My Last
the new album from
Jordan Munson
available exclusively through
New Amsterdam’s Bandcamp Subscription
watch album trailer here
Until My Last is the new album from Indianapolis-based composer, performer, and multimedia artist Jordan Munson. The album will be released on May 11and will be available exclusively through New Amsterdam’s Bandcamp subscription. Subscribe today to be sure you receive the album.
Until My Last collects three works written over the course of the past three years. In creating the music on the album, Munson drew on his backgrounds in sound design, improvisation, and pop music. With the focused hand of an engineer, Munson fuses together textural electronics with jarring moments of melodic clarity, creating an immersive and starkly emotional listening experience.
Opening work “Anew”—co-written with composer/vocalist Hanna Benn (Son Lux, BOOTS)—pairs triumphant vocal fanfare with darkly visceral industrial rhythms, while title track “Until My Last” presents a furiously urgent piano performance (played by Munson himself) in counterpoint with a bed of processed music box tones. “Where Light Escapes You,” the shortest of the three works, acts as something of a palette cleanser in the middle of the album, filtering the delicate percussion work of Alex Wier through Munson’s kaleidoscopic electronics.
Watch the trailer featuring an excerpt from “Anew” here:
About the album, Munson writes, “This collection of works selects from material over a three year span, so there is an inherent evolution of style and technique. I hear strong similarities in both form and intent although each maintains a very different character. Commonalities in form have mainly to do with process. My background in free improvisation often sets the framework for a piece. At least initially. The intention with these works was to further graft my history playing popular and experimental music to formal musical training in a way that is more honest and personal.”
Munson continues, “A visual analogy for this album that makes sense to me is rather topographical. It’s as if you are starting at the bottom entrance of a heavily wooded mountain trail. Here, the landscape is intricate but formless as you focus on what is right in front of you. This perception only strengthens as the environment becomes denser, until you reach a clearing at the end. At that point there is a feeling of arrival. You can sense the clarity and connection of everything that surrounds you.”
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All works on Until My Last were written by Jordan Munson with the exception of “Anew” which was co-written with Hanna Benn. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by engineer Doug Bielmeier in Indianapolis, IN. Featured performers include vocalists Hanna Benn and Abby Gardner (Anew), violinist Robin Cox (Anew), and percussionist Alex Wier (Where Light Escapes You). Text in “Anew” derives from the poem “Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil” (1918) by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Until My Last Tracklisting:
1. Anew, Part 1
2. Anew, Part 2 WATCH TRAILER
3. Anew, Part 3
4. Where Light Escapes You
5. Until My Last, Part 1
6. Until My Last, Part 2
7. Until My Last, Part 3
8. Until My Last, Part 4
9. Until My Last, Part 5